Ningen no jôken (1961)

Note des utilisateurs:

8.8/10   

Réalisateur:

Masaki Kobayashi

Writers:

Zenzo Matsuyama (screenplay) &
Koichi Inagaki (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

5 août 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | History | War

Plot:

Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanist protagonist...

Plot Keywords:

Russian | Japanese | Soldier | Manchuria | Soviet

Awards:

5 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

not the gangster slash-em-up buddy film you thought it would be

Ensemble

Tatsuya Nakadai	...	Kaji
Michiyo Aratama	...	Michiko
Tamao Nakamura	...	Hinannmin no Shôjo
Yusuke Kawazu	...	Terada Nitôhei (as Yûsuke Kawazu)
Chishu Ryu	...	Hinanmin no Chôrô (as Chishû Ryû)
Taketoshi Naitô	...	Tange Ittôhei
Kyôko Kishida	...	Ryûko
Reiko Hitomi	...	Umeko
Keijiro Morozumi	...	Hironaka Gôchô (as Keijirô Morozumi)
Koji Kiyomura	...	Hikita Ittôhei (as Kôji Kiyomura)
Nobuo Kaneko	...	Kirihara Gôchô
Fujio Suga	...	Nagata Taii
Tatsuya Ishiguro	...	Dôkutsu Taichô
Kazuo Kitamura	...	Kitagô Sôchô
Toshio Takahara	...	Chôsen e Iku Heichô

Autre(s) titre(s):

A Soldier's Prayer
Ningen no jôken: Dai 5 bu - Shi no dasshutsu (Japan) (first part title)
Ningen no jôken: Dai 6 bu - Kôya no hôkô (Japan) (second part title)
Ningen no jôken: Kanketsu hen (Japan) (promotional title)
Ningen no joken V-VI
The Human Condition III (USA)
La condition de l'homme: La prière du soldat (France) [fr]

Durée:

190 min | West Germany:143 min | Japan:104 min (part 2)

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais | Mandarin | Russe

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Stereo (RCA Sound Recording)

Classification:

West Germany:16 (f) | USA:GP

Company:

Ninjin Club

Anecdotes:

Is the first Japanese movie in stereo.

Movie Connections:

Follows Ningen no jôken (1959/II)

not the gangster slash-em-up buddy film you thought it would be

If you have any remote interest in film go see this right away. Don't bother watching if you are too scared to attempt the entire 10 hours in one sitting. It's worth it and then some. The actor playing Kaji was terrific and each part turns out better than the last (everything really, the acting/camera work... all the bells and whistles just sound better the further in you get). It definitely struck me as something Adolfas Mekas would totally dig, which says a lot. This is a must see. If you decide to bring the wife and kids (or husband and mother-in-law or what- have-you) just be warned: this movie involves a fair amount of human suffering, on and off the screen. -Ed Hellman.